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Eccentricity Quotes by John Stuart Mill
- The amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to the amount of genius, mental vigor, and moral courage it contained. That so…
- In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely because the tyranny…
- In this age, the mere example of non-conformity, the mere refusal to bend the knee to custom, is itself a service. Precisely because the tyranny…
- Eccentricity has always abounded when and where strength of character had abounded; and the amount of eccentricity in a society has generally been proportional to…
More Eccentricity Quotes
- To seek understanding before taking action, yet to trust my instincts when action is called for. Never to avoid danger from fear,… — Steven Brust
- Those whose abilities or knowledge incline them most to deviate from the general round of life are recalled from eccentricity by the… — Samuel Johnson
- There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people. — Rachel Weisz
- The surest defense against Evil is extreme individualism, originality of thinking, whimsicality, even - if you will - eccentricity. That is, something… — Joseph Brodsky
- Open your heart, your gaze, to the visitations of angels, even if the gifts they bring may not be centeredness and balance… — James Hillman
- I love and admire everyone who is different. I love that. The 'jet set' is banal. 'Good taste' is banal. Eccentricity is… — Jean Paul Gaultier
- We can have intellectual individualism and the rich cultural diversities that we owe to exceptional minds only at the price of occasional… — Robert H. Jackson
- It is diversity that makes any natural system robust, and diversity that stabilizes culture against the eccentricity and arrogance that have so… — Marilynne Robinson